Hand-Eye Supply: LaCie IamaKey, CooKey and WhisKey USB flash drives

We know USB flash drives have been around forever, in fact USB 2.0 technology debuted over a decade ago (April 2000), and in that time we've seen endless iterations on the form but this key-shaped flash drive by 5.5 designers for LaCie nailed it. We're not the only fans either  they recently picked up a Gold IDEA Award  and the IamaKey, CooKey and WhisKey are now one of LaCie's most popular products.

So until you have complete faith in the cloud, can get a connection everywhere, and effortlessly jump on your clients network to transfer files, USB flash drives are not going to be made obsolete anytime soon!

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Yeah, I have to second Big John, above--the form factor is obviously meant to suggest that these will survive on your keychain. Problem is, they won't. The contacts are protected by a little clear elastomer cover that falls off and gets lost in short order, and then pocket wear against whatever else you may have on your keychain quickly ruins the exposed contacts.

These keys are a very convenient take on the USB drive, however, be cautioned that when using a tower-style computer with a horizontal USB slot, the weight of your keys can eventually cause these to malfunction. It happened to me this past year, causing me to lose 8gb of data.

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